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Intersectionality contesting privilege; fostering inclusion Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Ferhan Mohammed Hassen, Şöheyda Göktürk, Tijen Tülübaş
Identity categories have the potential to become salient factors for unequal treatment within a public school setting in Ethiopia. Public school teachers can experience administrative procedures an...
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‘Portuguese race’ and empire Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Joao-Manuel Neves
The notion of ‘Portuguese race’ started to take shape in the early 1870s, under the influence of Aryan mythology and the first iterations of Haeckelian social Darwinist concepts of ‘historical race...
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Patriarchy in practice: ethnographies of everyday masculinities Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Kiran Raveendran
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Progressive borealism and the diversity deficit in Iceland’s constitutional reform process Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Liam O’Farrell
Efforts to rewrite Iceland’s constitution have attracted significant attention, being heralded as the world’s first ‘crowdsourced constitution’ and a pioneering example of deliberative democracy. S...
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‘Connecting the I to the we to the world’: social media as dialogue between self and society Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Luzelle Naudé
Social media has become a central context in which young people connect with others, explore their identity, and express their agency. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with th...
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To be salved, to be slave(d): reading ‘healing’ with and against the specter of Black suffering Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Garrett Ross
If the World ordering mandate of antiblackness is thought neither as a set of abhorrent acts, nor as a ‘system of beliefs and practices that attack, erode, and limit the humanity of Black people’ (...
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Crafting racism, civilization, and margins through plaster busts of Icelanders Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kristín Loftsdóttir
In the mid-nineteenth century, Iceland’s small population under Danish rule tried establishing itself as part of Europe's civilized and progressive population. The production of racist texts and im...
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Online hate speech on social media in Portugal: extremism or structural racism? Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Pedro Almeida, Janainna Pereira, Diego Candido
This paper analyses online racial hate speeches in Portugal. The theory underpinning this research challenges the idea that racism is an epiphenomenon in European and Portuguese history. Beginning ...
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Becoming ‘Authentic’ Indian women: displacement, home, and identity among women of the Indian diaspora in the USA Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Hema Ganapathy-Coleman
This paper analyzes interviews with 25 immigrant Indian women in the USA, most of whom arrived during the 1980s. Combining data from in-depth interviews of eight of these women from a cultural psyc...
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Conceptualizing student movements in Bangladesh post-2013: a qualitative and comparative case study of the Quota Reform Movement and the Road Safety Movement Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Saikot Chandra Ghosh
Despite the presence of mass grievances and moral indignation against the political elite and the monied class, the social movements in Bangladesh in the last decade, albeit very few, have failed t...
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Petrostates and power Social Identities Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Pal Ahluwalia, Toby Miller
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)
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The voice referendum: Australia’s time to right a wrong Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Pal Ahluwalia, Toby Miller
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Who is your fate linked to? Racial discrimination predicting linked fate among people with mixed-race ancestry Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Vanessa Gonlin, Camryn Cobb
People with mixed-race ancestry may experience connection with multiple ethnoracial groups, and ethnoracial discrimination may be associated with which ethnoracial groups individuals believe their ...
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Quotidian expressions of religiosity: examining ethno-religious diversity in the everyday lives of contemporary Bosnians and Herzegovinians Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Jurica Botić, Basil Cahusac de Caux, Verica Savić
This paper investigates religious and secular social greetings as a prism through which to view contemporary ethnic identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This study employs comprehensive surveys and ...
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Screening social justice: brave new films and documentary activism Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Kaniphnath Malhari Kudale
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)
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Living in a hostile country: the ‘Migrant’ and ‘Unbelonging’ in contemporary Brexit literature Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Christine Berberich
ABSTRACT This article will assess the situation of migrant ‘others’ in Britain post-Brexit. It will develop my established research interests in the situation of EU citizens in the UK in a new direction by looking at the impact Brexit has had on non-EU citizens living in the UK. Utilising Rosa Mas Giralt's concept of unbelonging, it will offer a close-reading of Isabel Dupuy’s Citation2019Dupuy, I
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Satisfaction with life among Colombian migrants in Chile: the role of fusion identity and acculturation strategies Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Diego Henríquez, Alfonso Urzúa, Wilson López-López
This study analyzes the relationship between identity fusion and acculturation strategies with life satisfaction in Colombian migrants in Chile. The sample consisted of 919 Colombian migrants, of w...
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Disappearing rooms: the hidden theatres of immigration law Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-08-20 T. S. Gangothri
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Technology ideology Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Pal Ahluwalia, Toby Miller
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023)
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The next big thing – artificial intelligence Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Pal Ahluwalia, Toby Miller
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2023)
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Insecurity in a pandemic era: a literary analysis of the nexus between COVID-19 and security challenges in Nigeria Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Evelyn Nwachukwu Urama
Nigeria has been battling insecurity due to the ravaging activities of different terrorist groups. The COVID-19 lockdown worsened the issue as it led to a hike in criminal activities. People were f...
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Europe as a big house – examining plantation logics in contemporary Europe Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Doron Eldar, David Jansson
As a way to address the current postcolonial moment, characteristic of ongoing relations of resource extraction and border control, we turn to the metaphor of the plantation, offering an interpreta...
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Identity, geography and citizenship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Benito Cao
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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A review on the development of education in the post-COVID-19 era Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Muhammad Imran, Norah Almusharraf
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Identity construction amongst individuals with binational heritage in Africa Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Akosua K. Darkwah, Geraldine A. Ampah
This paper draws on interviews with Africans of binational parental heritage to expand the literature on identity formation in two ways. First, it takes on the factors that shape primary identity f...
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Correction Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-06-15
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2022)
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Covid-19, communalism, and Islamophobia: India facing the disease Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Silvia Tieri, Amit Ranjan
ABSTRACT As threats to human security, epidemics cause fear and anxiety, thus generating conspiracy theories, fake news, and discrimination. In 2020, the most widespread xenophobic reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic was Sinophobia. In comparison, India’s response to the pandemic was both conventional and exceptional. Like other countries, India recorded a surge in Sinophobia; but –remarkably– in Islamophobia
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Mapping Hindutva’s coordinates: global formations of nationalist space Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Sitara Thobani
ABSTRACT This paper studies the religious and spatial politics of contemporary Hindu nationalism through an examination of the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, India, and the Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden, UK. Whereas the Neasden Temple is celebrated as a diasporic accomplishment that testifies to British multiculturalism, the Ayodhya temple has been mired by controversy and marred in violence
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Tunggu tubang and the extended family property inheritance system in Semende community, Indonesia Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Zainal Arifin, Maskota Delfi, Sidarta Pujiraharjo
The main issue to be discussed in this article is the takeover of women’s authority by men in the inheritance system of the extended family’s property in the Semende community (Indonesia). This dep...
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Baro Tumsa's contributions to the Oromo national movement Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Asafa Jalata
ABSTRACT The article examines the political and intellectual contributions of Baro Tumsa in forming the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and developing the Oromo national movement. After the Haile Selassie government banned the Macha-Tulama Self-Help Association (MTA) in 1967 and killed or imprisoned its prominent leaders and members, Baro played a central role in the Oromo national struggle facilitating
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Strengths and limits of limitless English in India: a critical reflection on the relationship of English to a backward community Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Shabnam S. Minz, Doreswamy
ABSTRACT English, initially being a language of imperial leaders and later of upper caste elites after independence, continues to remain an elitist language in India. Over the course of time and for various reasons, the need for English language learning has rapidly increased. English is also believed to promote social mobility for the people of backward communities. However, the history of social
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Anti-black racism and othering: an exploration of the lived experience of black Africans who live in Australia Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Hyacinth Udah
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss findings of a qualitative research conducted among thirty participants on their lived experiences with anti-black racism and Othering, highlighting the lived reality of being becoming and being positioned as a racialized subject. Building on critical race, post-colonial, everyday racism, and Foucauldian theories, I link my analysis of participants’ experiences to
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Motivated ignorance and social identity threat: the case of the Flat Earth Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Ian Jones, Andrew Adams, Joanne Mayoh
ABSTRACT Belief in a conspiracy theory may, for some, provide a social identity. Because of the nature of many conspiracy theories, social identities associated with such beliefs may be subject to varied and considerable threats. Whilst various mechanisms for dealing with social identity threat have received widespread attention, this paper introduces an as yet unexplored strategy – that of ‘motivated
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We have to talk about whiteness: widening the decolonial gates* Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Laís Rodrigues
ABSTRACT Recently, the Latin American decolonial perspective has been receiving growing attention, not only in academia, but also in other social, political, and cultural spaces, including in Brazil. Among other debates, decolonial thinkers have brought to light the continuity of coloniality in different dimensions (particularly, even if not only) of Latin American realities, long after the territorial
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‘Have we lost our sense of humour?!’ Affective senses of racial joking in Danish schools Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Mante Vertelyte
ABSTRACT Posing the rhetorical question ‘Have we lost our sense of humour?’ this article analyses senses of racial humour through the use of affect theory. Despite the common use of the idiom ‘a sense of humour’ within everyday speech, there is a lack of social and cultural analysis of the senses that guide understandings of whether or not something is funny. Through the lens of affect theory, this
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Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Muhammad Imran, Norah Almusharraf
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2023)
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Engineering indigenous identity: the construction of an authentic Sámi Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Luca Zini
ABSTRACT This article wishes to contribute to the study of indigenous identity by focusing on the role of the modern industrial state of the nineteenth century as a powerful and enduring agent that ‘makes, owns, and uses’ indigenous identity through the application of targeted artificial ascriptions. These ascriptions are the result of processes of legal reclassification and mechanisms of legal othering
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Why journalism? Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Pal Ahluwalia, Toby Miller
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2022)
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Intercultural creative expression in two Australian performance works – Counting and Cracking and Mother Tongue Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Cecelia Cmielewski
ABSTRACT Art can assist in exposure to difference, which may in turn open up spaces for dialogue between differences. This capacity to encourage and intervene necessarily operates at various levels and spheres and, in the arts, requires creative leadership. Creative leaders are those artists, recognised by their peers and public as artists who generate new developments in creative content to explore
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Making up humans Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Toby Miller, Pal Ahluwalia
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2022)
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Invited to witness: solidarity tourism across occupied Palestine Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Abdessamad Belhaj
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2023)
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Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land: envisioning nation as a polycultural community Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Jagdish Gupta, Seema Malik
ABSTRACT This paper proposes to examine Gish Jen’s novel Mona in the Promised Land from polycultural/transcultural perspective. Polyculturalism dismisses the notion that individuals’ relationships to cultures are categorical and proposes that they are rather partial and plural; that cultural traditions are not independent, sui generis lineages but rather interacting systems is another assumption of
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Multiple identities: Young Bedouin professionals challenging their socio-cultural Representations Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Smadar Ben-Asher, Esther E. Gottlieb, Kassim Alsraiha
ABSTRACT The desire of a minority group to integrate into society on equal terms with the majority is often expressed through the first-generation university degree holders of children sent by their parents to the schools of the majority group. The present study describes the multi-identities of Bedouin men and women who studied in the majority education system, a Jewish public school with Hebrew as
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Bridging social distinction and cultural communities in(side) spatial boundries: example of a café chain in Istanbul Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Yeliz Yücel, Serhat Güney
ABSTRACT Neo-liberal economy politics and the uprising of new high-spender conservative elites escalate radical urban transformations in Istanbul. Urban spaces that rapidly segregate from each other witness the symbolic conflicts of social groups that own cultural, economic and spatial capital. This study focuses on how a specific café chain in Istanbul is consumed as a privileged public space by its
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The laws of desire: rulings on sex and sexuality in India Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Kanchan Biswas
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2022)
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In and out of this world: material and extraterrestrial bodies in the Nation of Islam Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Abdessamad Belhaj
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2022)
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Voting for Identity Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Pal Ahluwalia, Toby Miller
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
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A short philosophical guide to the fallacies of love Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Suman S. Shanker
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2022)
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Searching for boxes to check: constructing boundaries of second-generation Indo-Caribbean identity through community initiatives Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Cristine Khan
ABSTRACT This study uses critical ethnography to examine how young community leaders negotiate ethno-racial boundaries through leading initiatives that advocate for an Indo-Caribbean identity in South Richmond Hill, Queens, one of the largest Indo-Guyanese and Indo-Trinidadian communities in the US. The second-generation constructs their own ethnic project by advocating for an Indo-Caribbean identity
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Art, politics & pamphleteer Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Vinit Kumar Jha Utpal
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2022)
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A conceptual analysis of the Rohingya–host community conflict over scarce resources in Bangladesh Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Md Reza Habib
ABSTRACT Bangladesh hosts over a million Rohingya on humanitarian grounds and offers them food and shelter. The Rohingya compete with the local community for access to economic and environmental resources and public services. I analyse this competition and conflict using conflict theory, which is a sociological perspective on social conflict. I argue that while the Rohingya are unquestionably marginalized
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The neo-Nazi doxa, the deep state, and COVID-19: neo-Nazis’ ambivalent relations to Big Pharma and the anti-vaccine movement Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Christer Mattsson, Thomas Johansson
ABSTRACT This article explores the role of conspiracy theories in the neo-Nazi movement. The focal points of the study are the core conspiracy theories within the movement and the interface with other conspiracy theories of less ideological importance such as ‘Big Pharma.’ The study is based on interviews with six active neo-Nazis in the context of the Swedish-dominated Nordic resistance movement.
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The impact of racial identity and school composition on affirmative action attitudes of African American college students Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Germine H. Awad, Kimberly Tran, Brittany Hall-Clark, Collette Chapman-Hilliard, Jendayi Dillard, Taylor Payne, Elaine Hess, Karen Jackson
ABSTRACT Affirmative Action remains a controversial policy that incites a variety of reactions. Some believe it’s an unjust policy that discriminates against applicants, while others view it as a policy aimed at fighting against past inequalities and discrimination. Little is known about African American endorsement of the policy. Two hundred and seven Black students from a predominantly White institution
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Documentary making for digital humanists Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Muhammad Imran
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2022)
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Documenting disappearance: self-forgery and dissimulation as a means of mobility Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Chris Campanioni
ABSTRACT How have migrants and other displaced and internally excluded persons used dissimulation and self-forgery in service of mobility? How can we read an aesthetics of disappearance as more than just an aesthetical choice but as a source of activism? Following Jacques Rancière [The politics of aesthetics (G. Rockhill. Trans.). Continuum. (Original Work Published in, 2000)], I understand that such
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Ethnic identity in Arab Americans: gender, religious upbringing, and age differences Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Danny Rahal, Beth Kurtz-Costes, Vanessa V. Volpe
ABSTRACT Arab Americans constitute a diverse, sizeable ethnic minority in the United States. However, limited research has examined the content of Arab American ethnic identity and whether this ethnic identity differs by demographic factors. In the present study, we developed measures of Arab American ethnic identity and cultural practice, and assessed differences in those variables by gender, religious
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The ever-diminishing liminal space of being: the totalizing subjectification of being Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Brad Bierdz
ABSTRACT Within this article, I make multiple interconnected arguments around the idea of the subject, the process of subjectivization, the essentializing nature of most of our research processes in academia, the socializing of existence, the loss of ‘nature,’ and the obliteration of what Homi Bhabha has so accurately described as liminal space: a space where humans may escape the socializing processes
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Skin Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Andrew Kettler
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
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The roots of uprooting: migrant oral history and internationalist solidarity Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Alborz Ghandehari
ABSTRACT This article explores a transnational oral history project on migrant justice which I developed in collaboration with refugee organizers in Greece and students in my course ‘Borders and Migration’ at the University of Utah. In the project, US-based and Greece-based im/migrant communities exchange oral histories with each other on their struggles and experiences. I argue that this exchange
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Celebrity activism Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Pal Ahluwalia, Toby Miller
Published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2022)